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Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing

MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. In 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River in Jianli, Hubei Province with 454 people on board when it capsized in a severe thunderstorm. 442 deaths were confirmed, with 12 rescued.

New England tornado outbreak

In 2011, seven tornadoes appeared in Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley and southern Maine, destroying large sections of Springfield, Massachusetts and its surrounding region, killing three people, injuring 300 in Springfield alone, and leaving at least 500 people homeless.

Air France Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, which crashed. The Airbus A330, operated by Air France, stalled and did not recover, eventually crashing into the Atlantic Ocean at 02:14 UTC, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board.

Dolphinarium massacre

The Dolphinarium discotheque massacre was a Hamas terror attack on 1 June 2001 in which a Hamas-affiliated Islamist terrorist blew himself up outside a nightclub on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of them teenagers. The majority of the victims were Israeli teenage girls, whose families had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union.

Flixborough disaster

An explosion at a chemical plant sited on the banks of the River Trent in Lincolnshire. The Flixborough explosion was on of the worst UK industrial accidents, which killed 28 people and 36 others onsite suffered injuries. Property in the surrounding area was damaged to a changing degree.